Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] they [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 2 | And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours . |
| 3 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 4 | She asked him : ‘ What time is it ? ’ as if they had been in the middle of a conversation . |
| 5 | The corresponding amounts at the previous year end include its assets and liabilities at that date and show the shares issued by the group to acquire it as if they had been in issue then . |
| 6 | Tearing into the Instrument , some behave ‘ as if they had been in the schools , where each man had liberty to propose his own Utopia , and to frame commonwealths according to his own fancy … |
| 7 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |